Expressing the Camera: Animating Along a Path


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A Creative COW Mastering After Effects Series

Rick Gerard
Roseville, California USA

Tutorial Focus:
Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie as the second in a series that teaches basic After Effects Camera animation. In this example you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to orient the camera along a path using expressions to gain compete complete control.

Project files: After Effects 6.0 project file Footage Files Printable Recipe Card

Introduction

This is the second in a series of free tutorials designed to introduce you to efficient techniques that will improve your After Effects skills and improve your workflow. A Printable Recipe Card is included to help you follow along. Keyboard shortcuts and tips for nearly every step are on the card. The tutorial movie lasts five minutes. Completing the project from scratch should take about 40 minutes. Numbers in the upper right corner of the movie match the steps on the recipe card. I hope you find it easy to follow along.

Rick

Requirements: After Effects 6.0
Recommendation: Adobe Illustrator CS


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